What You're Actually Craving (And Why You're Too Ashamed to Admit It) - About Desire

Reclaiming the desire.This episode started with a thirty thousand euro price tag, a closed door, and a festival we built ourselves. Because that is what desire does when you stop burying it. It finds another way in.I talk about why so many women say they don't know what they want, but actually do. I go into the psychology of buried desire, how shame gets installed early and quietly teaches us that wanting is dangerous. And I get personal about how my own desires have completely changed over the last three years, from wild exploration after my divorce to the warrior poet I am now calling in.This one is a permission slip. To want what you actually want. To say it out loud. And to trust that the life you are dreaming of cannot find you if you do not admit to wanting it.In this episode:Why women say they don't know what they want but actually do, and what happens when you ask the right questionsThe psychology of buried desire and the difference between guilt and shameHow wanting gets trained out of us from childhood, and why it goes underground instead of disappearingThe shame and desire connection, and why what you are most ashamed of is often closest to what you actually wantHow desire evolves over time and why you don't owe loyalty to a version of yourself you have outgrownWhy desire is not about filling a hole but about what rises when you stop numbingThe two practices to access your desire when it feels buriedThis week's practice:Write your unfiltered bucket list. The things you have never told anyone. The places, the experiences, the desires you have kept quiet. Do not edit it. Do not explain it to yourself. Just let it exist on paper.This week's question:What do I want that I have been too afraid, or too ashamed, or too loyal to an old version of myself, to admit?Ready to go deeper?DM me AUDIT on Instagram @nadjaloveslife and I will send you the free 12/10 Life Audit, an honest look at every area of your life including the desires you might not have given yourself permission to look at yet.And if you are ready to stop quietly wanting and start actually building, DM me CALL and I will send you the link to book your free 45 minute 12/10 Alignment Call.Find me here:Instagram: @nadjaloveslife